MARC Record from Library of Congress

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001 2009022408
003 DLC
005 20141120075118.0
008 090604s2010 nju b 001 0 eng
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020 $a9780691128818 (hardcover : alk. paper)
020 $a0691128812 (hardcover : alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn373474943
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050 00 $aPS166$b.A46 2010
082 00 $a810.9/3822$222
100 1 $aAlter, Robert.
245 10 $aPen of iron :$bAmerican prose and the King James Bible /$cRobert Alter.
260 $aOxford ;$aPrinceton, N.J. :$bPrinceton University Press,$cc2010.
300 $a198 p. ;$c23 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aAmerica as a Scriptural culture -- Style in America and the King James version -- Moby-Dick : polyphonu -- Absalom! Absalom! : lexicon -- Seize the day : American amalgam -- The world through parataxis.
520 $aIn this book, biblical translator and literary critic Robert Alter traces some of the fascinating ways that American novelists--from Melville, Hemingway, and Faulkner to Bellow, Marilynne Robinson, and Cormac McCarthy--have drawn on the rich stylistic resources of the canonical English Bible to fashion their own strongly resonant styles and distinctive visions of reality. --from publisher description
650 0 $aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism.
630 00 $aBible.$lEnglish$xVersions$xAuthorized$xHistory.
650 0 $aBible and literature.
630 00 $aBible$xIn literature.